The game was a such a mess that it's been taken off stores and they said it would take 3 months of work to fix it and relaunch it
Oh, thats tragic. Was it any good though? Did it play like traditional Disgaea?
The game was a such a mess that it's been taken off stores and they said it would take 3 months of work to fix it and relaunch it
No idea, all I know it was maintenance-galore and they went so far as to blame it on oversea players trying to access the game.Oh, thats tragic. Was it any good though? Did it play like traditional Disgaea?
It was prophetic.If Disgaea RPG is to blame(it's probably not, at least not on its own) then it's arguably Sony's fault they are in trouble anyway.
THQ Nordic obviously
ZHP is one of my favorite NIS games. It was so absurd and fun.
It's weird how they never put their back catalog on PC or even hd remastered them on the ps3/ps4I need to get around to finishing ZHP one of these days. That game was pretty fun.
not releasing a disgaea collection on ps4/switch was weirdIt's weird how they never put their back catalog on PC or even hd remastered them on the ps3/ps4
They're in the same position as Compile Heart now. CH decided to stop focusing on Neptunia mainline games and did a bunch of new IPs, and they all flopped hard. Idea Factory International can't even afford to do physical copies of Arc of Alchemist and Mary Skelter 2 for America.Man, I really assumed someone was buying all those games they were releasing. They looked...boring to me, but everything isn't really for me. When you're selling 3k copies tho, it's time for you to re-evaluate what you're making.
https://gematsu.com/2018/04/nis-america-apologizes-for-seemingly-negative-comments-towards-ps4I really hope they can still make Disgaea 6, it's my favorite IP from them.
Remember the "Sony is not friendly with small publishers"
They're in the same position as Compile Heart now. CH decided to stop focusing on Neptunia mainline games and did a bunch of new IPs, and they all flopped hard. Idea Factory International can't even afford to do physical copies of Arc of Alchemist and Mary Skelter 2 for America.
Jesus Christ.EDIT: Including ports, they released 12 games in 2016, 13 in 2017, and 15 in 2018. I think wiki is missing a couple too.
I remember the talk of an exodus of a lot of people out of Nippon Ichi, and duckroll saying something about that for Trillions' announcement.Trillion: God of Destruction actually had some of the key staff from Disgaea.
I'd think the most appealing part of acquiring NIS would be NISA for a Japanese company without a strong western publishing branch. So maybe Kadokawa, Gungho, Level 5, Cygames, SNK, etc? Kadokawa seems like a good fit given NISA brings over most of their stuff already.
Or maybe something like a merger with Falcom given the close ties with upper management and Ys VIII being such a hit for both? Or if not Falcom maybe someone else (Idea Factory, Spike Chunsoft, Arc System Works, etc).
They're in the same position as Compile Heart now. CH decided to stop focusing on Neptunia mainline games and did a bunch of new IPs, and they all flopped hard. Idea Factory International can't even afford to do physical copies of Arc of Alchemist and Mary Skelter 2 for America.
I'd think the most appealing part of acquiring NIS would be NISA for a Japanese company without a strong western publishing branch. So maybe Kadokawa, Gungho, Level 5, Cygames, SNK, etc? Kadokawa seems like a good fit given NISA brings over most of their stuff already.
Or maybe something like a merger with Falcom given the close ties with upper management and Ys VIII being such a hit for both? Or if not Falcom maybe someone else (Idea Factory, Spike Chunsoft, Arc System Works, etc).
So do I. I recall something having to do with issues with the PC port of Disgaea that degenerated in a schism that lead to a lot of the original staff ditching NIS.I remember the talk of an exodus of a lot of people out of Nippon Ichi, and duckroll saying something about that for Trillions' announcement.
Cost saving and losing staff due to bad practices like the ones a few people mentioned made D5 look like a very desperate try to stay afloat, and it did sell well enough world wide to save them for a bit. If they can't be saved someone bigger will have to save the IPs i guess.
That sounds so unlikley when i think about the splitting of Clover studios from Capcom and Platinum seemingly never being in contact again. It always seems like both sides will always avoid ever bringing up the relationship existed. Sure didn't have Gene in any other game since. I don't know of any examples of japanese devs getting back together again as if to make amends.It'd also allow the ex-NIS staff to reunite with their colleagues again. provided whoever made the call to not pay them is gone.
My only worry with IF is they're sort in the same boat as NIS right now.Idea Factory is the most logical if anyone. Also with the western branch winding down on retail releases, they could just have NISA (now absorbed into IFI) take full charge of retail stuff.
It'd also allow the ex-NIS staff to reunite with their colleagues again. provided whoever made the call to not pay them is gone.
Oh right. I do think either Kadokawa or Gungho would be the top two in a position for this sort of thing. Even if that happened though I'd still expect a major restructuring at NIS and we'd probably be seeing D6 asap.
The closest example I can think of is Tadashi Satomi and Atlus. Satomi was the scenario writer of the first Persona games and he left Atlus, apparently on bad terms, due to the backlash regarding the fact he based the main heroine of a game he worked on an idol he was obsessing over and made her fall in love with his self-insert in Persona: Innocent Sin.That sounds so unlikley when i think about the splitting of Clover studios from Capcom and Platinum seemingly never being in contact again. It always seems like both sides will always avoid ever bringing up the relationship existed. Sure didn't have Gene in any other game since. I don't know of any examples of japanese devs getting back together again as if to make amends.
My only worry with IF is they're sort in the same boat as NIS right now.
Oh right. I do think either Kadokawa or Gungho would be the top two in a position for this sort of thing. Even if that happened though I'd still expect a major restructuring at NIS and we'd probably be seeing D6 asap.
It's weird how they never put their back catalog on PC or even hd remastered them on the ps3/ps4
Yeah, and another of their games (Sora to Umi no Aida, which had an anime last Fall) just shut down recently after only a year or so.Compile Heart also have a collaboration with Forwardworks announced... :/
Alot of their new ups have been doing well on switch in the west but that ofcourse that only falls under the NISA branch and not NIS itself so they arent actually recieving any of the benefitsI get the urge to lay this all at FW's feet, but people need to remember that NIS has been releasing almost nothing but flops for the last few years outside of Coven and Disgaea 5.
Pretty much all of their recent releases have either not charted at all, or barely. That's extremely not good.
Yeah, and another of their games (Sora to Umi no Aida, which had an anime last Fall) just shut down recently after only a year or so.
Ew, no.Koei Tecmo would be the most ideal larger publisher. They seem to be pretty prolific and do quite a few things right. They're great at legacy ports like on Switch, and get a SHIT TON of mileage with the Dynasty Warriors engine (apparently called LTGL Engine).
Maybe they can get NIS ironed out, and maybe keep NISA around to localize non-KT games. Hell, they too can get KT's stuff out at retail in the west more, like Dynasty Warriors 8 Definitive Edition and the Atelier Arland Trilogy on Switch for example.
Ew, no.
Gust games have been pretty terrible ever since KT brought them.
Yeah, they seemingly have been... not as good from my observation.
But at least with NIS, how many alternatives are there besides closing down? Idea Factory may have issues of their own which would make it VERY risky for NIS to be bought by them.
GungHo hardly does anything, so I'm not sure how well they can handle NIS. Game Arts is basically non-existent.
Kadokawa may work but they have a lot of big folks already, such as Spike Chunsoft, Mages/5pb., and of course From Software. But they are huge so they could handle them.
Who would you recommend?
a random Bandai studio that was mostly known for Titty Robot games
If Nintendos major purchase in the last 10-15 years has been a random Bandai studio that was mostly known for Titty Robot games; I see absolutely no reason why them acquiring NIS is unrealistic. Though don't take that as me saying it will happen, just that 1. it makes sense, 2. its its realistic.
NIS have a large portfolio of IP's, as well as a large assortment of staff and studios. Nintendo and affiliates have been increasing in size the past 2 years, so adding NIS would bolster them even further.
oh i'm sure it's 100% trollingThat's so reductive and incendiary that you have to be trolling.
You should probably look at the companies they haven't bought despite having way closer relationships to them than NIS.
That's so reductive and incendiary that you have to be trolling.
That's so reductive and incendiary that you have to be trolling.
KT buying them would be terrible, albeit realistic, all they do is pump out the most generic of generic trash yearly.
If Nintendos major purchase in the last 10-15 years has been a random Bandai studio that was mostly known for Titty Robot games; I see absolutely no reason why them acquiring NIS is unrealistic. Though don't take that as me saying it will happen, just that 1. it makes sense, 2. its its realistic.
NIS have a large portfolio of IP's, as well as a large assortment of staff and studios. Nintendo and affiliates have been increasing in size the past 2 years, so adding NIS would bolster them even further.
Rare comes to mind. They pretty much kept the N64 afloat and Nintendo still passed the chance to buy them, allowing Microsoft to acquire the studio.You should probably look at the companies they haven't bought despite having way closer relationships to them than NIS.
That's so reductive and incendiary that you have to be trolling.